Georgios T. Halkias

Director, Associate Professor
DRPC Chairman
BA (Hawaii), MA (Hawaii), MA (Amsterdam), DPhil (Oxford)

Email: halkias@hku.hk
Tel: (852) 3917-2846
Address: Rm 409A, Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus

Research Interests:

Indo-Tibetan Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna Pure Land histories, texts, rituals, and contemplative practices | Himalayan Buddhism | Hellenism and Buddhism |

Links

https://hku-hk.academia.edu/GeorgiosHalkias
https://hub.hku.hk/cris/rp/rp01848
http://religion.oxfordre.com/page/buddhism/
https://asiar.hku.hk/brinfaith/home/

Courses Taught

CCHU9062 Buddhist Visions in World Cinema (offered twice a year)
BSTC6013 Buddhism in Tibetan contexts: history and doctrines
BSTC7002 Tantric meditation traditions in Tibet: a survey of Vajrayāna texts and practices
BSTC7010 Classical Tibetan I
BSTC7011 Classical Tibetan II
BSTC2027 Tibetan Buddhism
BSTC2015 Tibetan Language I
BSTC2018 Tibetan Language II

Klaus-Dieter Mathes

Venerable Yuen Hang Memorial Trust Professor in Buddhist Studies
UG Programme Coordinator
MA (Bonn), PhD (Marburg), Habilitation (Hamburg)

Email: kdmathes@hku.hk
Tel: (852) 3910-2458
Address: Rm 404, Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus

Research Interests:

Indian Mahāmudrā Studies | Buddha-nature and hermeneutics | Maitreya Works | Buddhist Philosophy (mostly Madhyamaka) and Science

Links

https://hku-hk.academia.edu/KlausDieterMathes

Courses Taught

BSTC2027 Tibetan Buddhism
BSTC2048 Buddhism and Science: View and Meditation in the Light of Physics and Neuroscience
BSTC6002 Mahayana Buddhism
BSTC7122 Yogācāra Models of Reality

Catherine Hardie

Assistant Professor
RPG Career and Development Adviser
DPhil (Oxon), MPhil (Oxon), MA (Hawai’i), LLB (Hons), BA, DML (Melb)

Email: cehardie@hku.hk
Tel: (852) 3917-7205
Address: Rm 403, Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus

Research Interests:

Tibetan Buddhism in the Sinosphere | Buddhism and contemporary Tibetan society | Anthropology of Buddhism

Links

https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-7813-2343

Courses Taught

BSTC2021  Buddhist Ethics
BSTC2049 Buddhism and Gender
BSTC7112   Buddhist Ethics
BSTC6031 Special topics in Buddhist studies (3): Anthropology of Buddhism

Hin Hung Sik

CBS Senior Fellow
Honorary Assistant Professor
Chairman, Committee of Master of Buddhist Counselling Programme
BA (Oregon), MA (London)

Email: hinhung@hku.hk
Tel: (852) 3917-2847
Address: Rm 413, Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus

Research Interests:

Mahāyāna Buddhism | Buddhist Counselling | Awareness Training Program Buddhist meditation

Links

HKU Scholars Hub: Researcher Page

Courses Taught

BSTC2022 The evolution of Buddhist meditation
BSTC6052 Study of important Buddhist meditation texts
BSTC7123 The concept of emptiness in Buddhist literature
BSTC7602 Spiritual formation through contemplative practices (co-taught)
BSTC7603 Dharma therapy (co-taught)
BSTC7604 Awareness training program (co-taught)
BSTC7606 Buddhist homiletics: The art of presenting Buddhist teachings (co-taught)
Module 5. Field Practicum of Buddhist Counselling (co-taught)

Xing Guang

Senior Lecturer
Chairman, Committee of Master of Buddhist Studies Programme
BA (BAC), MA (Kelaniya), MPhil (Kelaniya), PhD (London)

Email: guangxin@hku.hk
Tel: (852) 3917-5040
Address: Rm 405, Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus

Research Interests:

Early Buddhism | Comparative Study of Pāli Nikayas and Chinese Agamas | Early Mahāyāna | Chinese Buddhism: History and Doctrine | Early and Chinese Buddhist Ethics |

Links

https://hku-hk.academia.edu/guangxing
https://repository.hku.hk/cris/rp/rp01138

Courses Taught

CCCH9018 Buddhism and Chinese Culture (offered twice a year)
BSTC2002 Life and Buddhism
BSTC6044 History of Chinese Buddhism

Kin Cheung (George) Lee

Senior Lecturer
Academic Advisor, Master of Buddhist Counselling
Licensed Psychologist (PSY28022)
Registered Supervisor in Professional Practice of Buddhist Counselling (RBCS-0003)
BA (SDSU), MA (USC), MA (Alliant), MBuddhStud (HKU), PhD (Alliant), PhD (HKU)

Email: glee123@hku.hk
Tel: (852) 3917-5068
Address: Rm 409, Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus

Research Interests:

Buddhist Counseling | Buddhist-derived interventions | Buddhist-teachings based interventions | Buddhist Teachings as Theoretical Orientation

Links

https://www.noteknowchoose.com/

Courses Taught

BSTC7600 Theories and practice in Buddhist counselling I
BSTC7601 Theories and practice in Buddhist counselling II
BSTC7602 Spiritual formation through contemplative practices (co-taught)
Module 5. Field Practicum of Buddhist Counselling (co-taught)

G. A. Somaratne

Senior Lecturer
BA (Kelaniya), MA (Northwestern), PhD (Northwestern)

Email: soma@hku.hk
Tel: (852) 3917-5076
Address: Rm 408, Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus

Research Interests:

Early Buddhist teachings | Abhidhamma psychology | Editing and translating Pāli texts | Religion and religious studies

Links

https://hku-hk.academia.edu/SomaratneAthukoralalage
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ga_Somaratne
https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9789811624094
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-1914-5

Courses Taught

CCHU9086 Understanding Religious Worlds
BSTC1003 Introduction to Religious Studies
BSTC2006 Buddhist Psychology and Mental Cultivation
BSTC6079 Early Buddhism
BSTC7120 Buddhist Psychology and Mental Cultivation

Chung-hui Tsui

Lecturer
Tung Lin Kok Yuen Scholar in Buddhist Art and Culture
BA (FJCU), MA (London), MBuddhStud (HK), PhD (HK)

Email: chunghui@hku.hk
Tel: (852) 3917-5018
Address: Rm 407, Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus

Research Interests:

Buddhist Cave Art & Archaeology along the Silk Road | Dunhuang Art & Culture | Chinese Calligraphy & Buddhist writing culture | Buddhist Manuscripts from Dunhuang and Turfan | Chinese Art & Culture

Links

https://hku-hk.academia.edu/ZhonghuiCui

Courses Taught

CCCH9044 Dunhuang and the Silk Road: Art, Culture and Trade
BSTC2010 Buddhist Art & Architecture
BSTC2014 Chinese Buddhist Art
BSTC2030 Chinese Buddhist Calligraphy
BSTC6080 Chinese Buddhist Art along the Silk Road
BSTC7003 Dunhuang Buddhist Art and Culture

Bonnie W.Y. Wu

Lecturer
BSW (HK), PhD (HK), RSW

Email: bonniewu@hku.hk
Tel:(852) 3917-5066
Address: Rm 413, Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus

Research Interests:

Buddhist counselling and Buddhist-based intervention | Buddhist education | Mindfulness and meditation | Buddhism and neuroscience | Group work

Links

https://hub.hku.hk/cris/rp/rp03215

Courses Taught

BSTC7611 Group work in Buddhist and traditional counselling
BSTC7604 Awareness Training Program (co-taught)
BSTC8998 Capstone Experience
Module 4 Advanced Research Methods in Buddhist Counselling
Module 5 Field Practicum of Buddhist Counselling (co-taught)

Qing Chang

Visiting Professor
BA (PKU), MA (PKU), PhD (Kansas)

Email: cq1188@hku.hk
Address: Rm 406, Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus

Research Interests:

Buddhist Art and Archaeology

Courses Taught

BSTC6030 Special topics in Buddhist studies (2): Buddhist architecture

Jennifer S.W. Yim

Adjunct Associate Professor
BSW (HKBU), MEd Counselling (CUHK), PGDE FCSW (HKPU), MBuddhStud, (HK), EDD (UTS)

Email: yimshuiwa@gmail.com
Tel: (852) 3162-6300
Address: Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus

Research Interests:

Buddhist counseling | Gifted education and counseling | Training and supervising counsellors | Mental and emotional health | Parent Education

Courses Taught

BSTC7603 Dharma Therapy (co-taught)
Module 3 Professional Ethics in Buddhist Counselling

Tony K.M. Chui

Adjunct Assistant Professor
MBS Capstone Experience Coordinator
BSc (Toronto), MPhil (HK), MBuddhStud (HK), PhD (HK)

Email: tonychui@hku.hk
Tel: (852) 3917-7204
Address: Rm 412, Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus

Research Interests:

Tibetan Medicine | Health and healing in cultural systems | Japanese  Aesthetics |

Courses Taught

BSTC2003 The Influence of Zen Buddhism on Japanese Aesthetics
BSTC2009 Japanese Culture and Thoughts: The Buddhist Impact
BSTC8xxx/8999 Master of Buddhist Studies Capstone Experience

Fa Ren Sik

Adjunct Assistant Professor
BA (CUHK), MPhil (CUHK), PhD (Lancaster)

Email: faren@hku.hk
Address: Rm 412, Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus

Research Interests:

Chinese Culture and Religions | Studies on the practice of Chinese Buddhism | History of Chinese Buddhism | Studies of Chinese Buddhist Canons | Chinese Buddhism in Contemporary period | Anthropology approach to the studies of Chinese Buddhism

Courses Taught

BSTC2004 Chinese Buddhism and Ritual
BSTC2005 Buddhism in today’s world
BSTC7606 Buddhist homiletics: The art of presenting Buddhist teachings (co-taught)
BSTC7607 Buddhist liturgy and rituals (co-taught)

Hin Yan Sik

Adjunct Assistant Professor
BSc (Surrey), MSc (Surrey), PhD (HK)

Email: buddhistspiritualcare@gmail.com
Address: Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus

Courses Taught

BSTC6006 Buddhist Counselling and Pastoral Care
BSTC7605 Being with the Sick, the Elderly and the Dying
Module 5. Field Practicum of Buddhist Counselling (co-taught)

Helena S.Y. Yuen

Adjunct Assistant Professor
LLB (London), MA (California), PhD (HK)

Email: helenayuen@gmail.com

Courses Taught

BSTC7608 Buddhist mediation

Dipen Barua

Honorary Lecturer
BA (Calcutta), MA (Pune), MBuddhStud (HK), MPhil (HK), PhD (HK)

Email: dipen@hku.hk
Address: Rm 412, Centre of Buddhist Studies, The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus

Research Interests:

Pāli Textual Studies | Consciousness in Indian Buddhist Philosophy | Modern Movements of Engaged Buddhism

Links

https://hku-hk.academia.edu/DipenBarua

Courses Taught

BSTC2016 Pāli language I
BSTC2019 Pali language II
BSTC3044 Pali language III
BSTC3045 Pali language VI
BSTC7006 Pali I
BSTC7007 Pali II

Ben Luk

Honorary Lecturer
BA Hons (CUHK), Dip-ed (HKU), MPhil (CUHK), MA (HKU), MBuddhStud (HKU), PhD (HKU)

Email: benlukmanbun@yahoo.com.hk

Research Interests:

Links

Courses Taught

BSTC2028 Making Sense of Chan Buddhism

Amrita Nanda

Honorary Lecturer
BA (Kelaniya), MBuddhStud (HK), PhD (HK)

Email: nanda@hku.hk
Tel: (852) 3917-5077
Address: Rm 409, 4/F, Jockey Club Tower Centennial Campus

Research Interests:

Historical Development of Indian Buddhism | Theravāda Buddhist Soteriological Developments | Pāli Commentarial Studies | Buddhist Canonical Languages

Courses Taught

BSTC2008 Sanskrit Language I
BSTC2020 Sanskrit Language II
BSTC3040 Sanskrit language III
BSTC3040 Sanskrit language IV
BSTC7008 Sanskrit I
BSTC7009 Sanskrit II
BSTC7606 Buddhist homiletics: The art of presenting Buddhist teachings (co-taught)
BSTC7607 Buddhist Rituals and Liturgy (co-taught)

Phuntsok Wangchuk

Honorary Lecturer
BA (DKCLI), MBuddhStud (HK), PhD (HK)

Email: Wangchuk@hku.hk
Tel: (852) 3917-5902
Address: Rm 413, Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus

Research Interests:

Buddhist History of Ladakh

Courses Taught

BSTC2015 Tibetan Language I
BSTC2018 Tibetan Language II
BSTC3042 Tibetan Language III
BSTC3043 Tibetan Language IV
BSTC7010 Classical Tibetan Language I
BSTC7011 Classical Tibetan Language II